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Using the latest data and supercomputer power, NASA specialists created a video of a black hole falling into a black hole and flying around the event horizon. It would be a one-way ticket, so humanity is unlikely to ever see real footage of such a maneuver. NASA’s modeling gives an idea of incredible phenomena in […]
The analysis of data collected by the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope allowed the researchers to detect a deceptively “quiet” black hole. Its latent activity affects star formation processes throughout the galaxy. How black holes affect their galaxies At the center of almost every large galaxy is a supermassive black hole, whose powerful gravity draws in gas […]
Modern astronomers are getting closer to solving the mystery of the origin of the most massive and ancient black holes in the Universe. Thanks to the data obtained during observations using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have gathered irrefutable evidence that black holes of extremely large size existed in the young Universe. Although […]
The Event Horizon Telescope team has published a new, most detailed image of the black hole M87, which was created using an additional telescope and independent data collected in 2018. The team of the telescope reported this on its website. The previous image was taken in 2017, but with the new improvements, the team has […]
NASA has captured an image of a black hole tearing apart a large star as a result of a “tidal event,” as astronomers call it. This is a greatly enlarged version of the effect in which the moon’s gravity causes tides in the ocean on Earth, the Mirror reports. The black hole was named ASASSN-14li. […]
Scientists have discovered the oldest and most distant supermassive black hole to date. The James Webb Space Telescope helped them with this, Space writes. What is known A supermassive black hole lies in the center of the CEERS 1019 galaxy. It appeared only 570 million years after the Big Bang. The difficulty in detecting the […]
Some stars say goodbye to life by burning up and exploding as supernovae, while others inflate and eject material before contracting and cooling. However, there are also those who face a more tragic fate – they are torn apart and devoured by a hungry black hole. Such an event happens only a few times every […]